Peter Norvig
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Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
Future-Proof Your Content and Business with AI | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
Absolutely. And I think it's a combination. So I think AI is a big part of it. I think the Internet and access to data was part of it. The cloud computing was a big part of it. Right. So it used to be. You know, if you were a software engineer, the hardest part was raising money because you had to buy a lot of computers just to get started.
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
Future-Proof Your Content and Business with AI | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
You know, now all you need is a laptop and a Starbucks card. And you can sit there and start going and then rent out the cloud computing resources as you need them and pay as you go. And so I think AI will have a similar type of effect. You can now start doing things much more quickly. You can prototype something and go to a release product much faster. It'll also make it more widely available.
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
Future-Proof Your Content and Business with AI | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
I live in Silicon Valley, so I see all these notices going around of looking for a technical co-founder. There's lots of people that say, well, I have an idea, but I'm not enough of a programmer to do it, so I need somebody else to help me do it. I think in the future, a lot of those people will be able to do it themselves, right?
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
Future-Proof Your Content and Business with AI | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
So I had a great example of a friend who's a biologist and he said, you know, I'm not a programmer. I can pull some data out of a spreadsheet and make a chart, but I can't do much more than that. But I study bird migrations and I always wanted to have like this interactive map of where the birds are going and play with that.
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
Future-Proof Your Content and Business with AI | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
And he said, and I knew a real programmer could do it, but it was way beyond me. But then I heard about this co-pilot, and I started playing around with it, and I built the app by myself. And so I think we'll see a lot more of that, of people that are non-technical or semi-technical who previously thought, here's something that's way beyond what I could ever do.
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
Future-Proof Your Content and Business with AI | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
I need to find somebody else to do it. Now I can do it myself.
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
Future-Proof Your Content and Business with AI | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
Absolutely.
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
Future-Proof Your Content and Business with AI | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
uh i guess so you know you could help build uh prototype systems like that you can do research uh you can ask uh you know give me a summary of this topic what are the important things what do i need to know as you said creating artwork and so on if that's not a skill you have they can definitely help you do that looking for things that you don't know is useful.
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
Future-Proof Your Content and Business with AI | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
And so I think just being aware of what the possibilities are and having that as one of the things that you can call upon. It's not going to solve everything for you, but it just makes everything go a little bit faster.
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
Future-Proof Your Content and Business with AI | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
I think it's kind of mixed. So any kind of software, any kind of goods with zero marginal cost tends to concentrate wealth in the hands of a few. And so that's definitely something to be worried about. With AI, we also have this aspect that the very largest models are big and expensive. They require big capital investments.
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
Future-Proof Your Content and Business with AI | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
And if you'd asked me two years ago, I would have said, oh, you know, all the AI is going to migrate to the big cloud providers because they're going to be the only ones that can build these large state-of-the-art models. But I think we're already going past that, right? So we're now seeing these much smaller open source models that are almost as good and that
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
Future-Proof Your Content and Business with AI | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
don't impose a barrier of huge upfront costs. So I think there's an opportunity. Yes, the big companies are going to get bigger because of this, but I think there's also this opportunity for the small opportunistic entrepreneur to say, here's an opening and I can move much faster than I could before and I can build something and get it done and then have that available.
Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Future-Proof Your Content and Business with AI | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
Absolutely. And I think it's a combination. So I think AI is a big part of it. I think the Internet and access to data was part of it. The cloud computing was a big part of it. Right. So it used to be. You know, if you were a software engineer, the hardest part was raising money because you had to buy a lot of computers just to get started.
Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Future-Proof Your Content and Business with AI | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
Now all you need is a laptop and a Starbucks card and you can sit there and start going and then... rent out the cloud computing resources as you need them and pay as you go. And so I think AI will have a similar type of effect. You can now start doing things much more quickly. You can prototype something and go to a release product much faster. And it'll also make it more widely available, right?
Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Future-Proof Your Content and Business with AI | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
So there's a lot of So I live in Silicon Valley, so I see all these notices going around of saying, looking for a technical co-founder. So there's lots of people that say, well, I have an idea, but I'm not enough of a programmer to do it, so I need somebody else to help me do it. I think in the future, a lot of those people will be able to do it themselves, right?
Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Future-Proof Your Content and Business with AI | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
So I had a great example of a friend who's a biologist and he said, you know, I'm not a programmer. I can pull some data out of a spreadsheet and make a chart, but I can't do much more than that. But I study bird migrations and I always wanted to have like this interactive map of where the birds are going and play with that.
Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Future-Proof Your Content and Business with AI | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
And he said, and I knew a real programmer could do it, but it was way beyond me. But then I heard about this co-pilot, and I started playing around with it, and I built the app by myself. And so I think we'll see a lot more of that, of people that are non-technical or semi-technical who previously thought, here's something that's way beyond what I could ever do.
Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Future-Proof Your Content and Business with AI | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
I need to find somebody else to do it. Now I can do it myself.
Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Future-Proof Your Content and Business with AI | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
Absolutely.
Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Future-Proof Your Content and Business with AI | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
I guess so, you know, you could help build prototype systems like that. You can do research. You can ask, you know, give me a summary of this topic. What are the important things? What do I need to know? As you said, creating artwork and so on, if that's not a skill you have, they can definitely help you do that. looking for things that you don't know is useful.
Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Future-Proof Your Content and Business with AI | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
And so I think just being aware of what the possibilities are and having that as one of the things that you can call upon. It's not going to solve everything for you, but it just makes everything go a little bit faster.
Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Future-Proof Your Content and Business with AI | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
I think it's kind of mixed. Uh, so, you know, any kind of, uh, software, any kind of, uh, goods with zero marginal cost tends to concentrate wealth in the hands of, of a few. And so that's definitely something to be worried about. Uh, With AI, we also have this aspect that the very largest models are big and expensive. They require big capital investments.
Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Future-Proof Your Content and Business with AI | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
And if you'd asked me two years ago, I would have said, oh, you know, all the AI is going to migrate to the big cloud providers because they're going to be the only ones that can build these large state-of-the-art models. But I think we're already going past that, right? So we're now seeing these much smaller open source models that are almost as good and that
Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Future-Proof Your Content and Business with AI | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
you know, don't impose a barrier of huge upfront costs. So I think there's an opportunity, you know, yes, the big companies are going to get bigger because of this. But I think there's also this opportunity for the small opportunistic entrepreneur to say, here's an opening and I can move much faster than I could before. And I can build something and get it done and then have that available.